The band have previously gone on record as saying that The 2nd Law will be "radically different" from their previous work, with singer Matt Bellamy saying that they are effectively "drawing a line" under a certain part of their career.

A trailer for the new album was released last month, which features music that Bellamy claims "tries to do what Rage Against the Machine did with hip-hop in the 1990s - take a bit of the electronic world and dubstep and play it with real instruments."